I’ve never tried Hades. Is it good?

I believe her full name is Eddie Covered in Bees! Aaaaaagh! Izzard.

The only times I spit are when I’ve got some bad phlegm (and it goes in a tissue) or after I brush my teeth (and it goes down the sink).  Somehow I’ve made it 49 years without spitting in public spaces.

I’d be happy to play an MMO, as long as it’s a “smooth ride” sort like Guild Wars 2. I tried Minecraft, Breath of the Wild, Warframe, and: big meh. But I still go on GW2 binges every few months, while wishing for some new world and new mechanics to play with.

It’s freaking expensive to develop an MMO, and if you cut…

On the one hand, crunch represents a failure of management and/or intentional exploitation of labor by management, and it sucks.

On the other, the people doing “creative vision and innovation in direction and design” are probably not the ones who set the schedules, budgets, hiring practices, company policies and so on.

Fonzie notes that the paint itself appears to be very delicate

This brings back memories of working in a game studio where most of the artists would climb onto their desks and disable the fluorescent ceiling lights by turning them in their sockets. Every couple of weeks, a maintenance guy would come through and replace all the (perfectly good) bulbs. The next day, the artists…

The problem with this is, high prices or brand names do not guarantee lasting quality by any means.  I’ve paid $30 for t-shirts that lasted for less time than an $8 shirt.  I’ve paid $60 for jeans that lasted for less time than a $20 pair.  And so on.

I hope they used too much HDR processing and saturation boosting on all these photos, because it can’t possibly look like this and still be a part of this plane of existence, can it?

I’ve had the same problem. Metal stick-on strips can help, but also pinch the nose and be annoying in themselves. I’ve ordered the Under Armor mask and am waiting on shipping... but also recently found the ones from Conico Masks on Etsy are the most comfortable and least foggy design I’ve tried so far.

I never played Silpheed, but this makes me nostalgic for Einhander (and its awesome soundtrack).

Lamy Safari and Al-Star are among my all-time favorites (whether rollerball or fountain).

I’ve also found I really like Stabilo bl@ck+ pens (despite the silly name, and the fact that they come in many ink colors) and Tombow Zoom 505 (for a heavier but grippy pen).

Lamy Safari and Al-Star are among my all-time favorites (whether rollerball or fountain).

I’ve also found I really…

I have glasses. Two things help a TON with glasses fog:

- a metal wire in the mask, or an addon. You can get aluminum strips with an adhesive backing to stick on any mask, for cheap.

- there’s anti-fogging stuff called Cat Crap that you can buff your glasses with. It isn’t 100% effective but... maybe 70%? Combined with…

I’ve had the HL1 and HL2 soundtracks in my MP3 collection for ages, and the music really is quite good in places. Maybe because I’m a synth geek who tends to make spooky dark ambient music in a similar vein, but it absolutely is memorable and among my favorite video game music.

More so than the Portal music, which...…

Stranger Danger kind of blended into the Satanic Panic and the drug war. Because obviously, anyone who kidnaps little kids either wants to sacrifice them to Satan or give them free heroin.

I was born late in 1971, and don’t remember that stuff seriously scaring me as a kid. There was just the occasional sudden…

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all get associated with nostalgia. Halloween is kind of the season opener for the holidays, where one visits family (or wishes one can, or is glad one doesn’t have to), remembers/participates in family traditions and remembers one’s childhood. Also probably a large pile of manufact…

If the horns were a lot longer, it could help with social distancing. Fashionable and practical!

I saw a mudcrab the other day.  I steered well clear of it.

Probably by volume, most of the sake I’ve had has been Sho Chiku Bai junmai from hinoki masu cups at Japanese festivals. To quote a barbecue chain, “it’s the wood that makes it good.”

I prefer ginjo, but really, the only sake I’ve tried and didn’t like was nigori.

I’m not a legal scholar, but whenever the Senate and President are willing, the number of justices on the Supreme Court can be changed. Dems have been talking about raising it to 11 justices, and of course, they’d get to choose the new ones. There’s also the idea of raising it to 15, of which 5 are chosen by each…